I don’t believe in blood thirsty competition when it comes to free software. Don’t get me wrong: I put a lot of work into making software and I get an enormous amount of pride in watching my projects work, especially when they work well. And I do like to have rivalries with other projects, because that helps to drive new features. However, this does not mean that I will automatically hate applications that compete with mine and bash them relentlessly in the support of my own bits… especially when trying to gain market share of a money-less market.

And so let me out a new face in the Blog-writing arena: BlogJet. Actually, there’s very, very few bad things I could say about this application, but there is one that will prevent me from moving to it (and no, it’s not that I didn’t write it!) For the most part, this application looks like an extension of Windows – the common use of images, icons, and UI is pretty killer. If anything, it integrates so well into Windows you might forget it’s a separate application!

Beyond that, it’s nice little things that they did, UI wise that makes it standout to me. It also includes an editor that works with posts that are already on the server, as part of the main application, and it picked up all of my categories and previous posts without an issue. The only and fundamental drawback to it is that it’s very generic when it comes to server support. Like w.Bloggar BlogJet supports a fist full (and a half) of server, which means that a lot of the extended fields are not supported. With MT, I assume that everything goes into the Entry Body, but I don’t know for sure, as I didn’t try to post anything.

Oh, and “off-topic”… if you’re using a Mac, I recommend echo, which is the successor to Kung-Log, for people that use OSX – great piece of code!